Legal Opinion
Shpetim Hoxha v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 18, 2003No. 01-71636PublishedCited by 593 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Shpetim Hoxha, an ethnic Albanian male from what used to be the Kosovo region of Serbia, 1 entered this country as a student and overstayed his visa. In deportation proceedings he applied for asylum, 8 U.S.C. § 1158, and withholding of deportation, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3), but the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) held that he was not eligible for either. Hoxha petitions for review. We conclude that substantial evidence does not support the BIA’s denial of eligibility for asylum but does support the denial of withholding of deportation. We accordingly grant…
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